A Thunderbolt from the sky..A thunderbolt that could make change.A Thunderbolt that will tear apart the black clouds of imperialism and communalism that had covered India.Yes change is inevitable..Change will Come..

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Kodiyeri
Balakrishnan, Charmian of Reception committee hoists the red flag in C
Kannan Nagar(Municipal Stadium and the venue of public meeting) on the
eve of 14th All India Conference of CITU. CITU president A K
Padmanabhan, general secretary Tapan Sen are also see

All India conference of India’s most powerful trade union, Centre of
Indian Trade Unions, is set to begin at Kannur tomorrow. CITU president A
K Padmanabhan will hoist the red flag in morning at Com. M K Pandhe
Nagar(Police Maidana) in Kannur town and his presidential address in
Dipankar Mukherjee Nagar, will be followed to mark the commencement of
the conference. General Secretary Tapan Sen will present the report
before the 2000 delegates. The conference will culminate on 8th
April with a massive rally of workers in Kannur district. Delegates
from all states have reached in Kannur by Wednesday evening.

The flag march led by CITU state president Anathalavattam Anandan, the
torch relay led by K M Sudhakaran, and flag pole march led by M M
Lawrence have converged in AKG square and three jathas jointly moved to
Com. C Kannan Nagar (Municipal stadium), the venue of public meeting.
The flag march was started from Valiya Chudukad, in Alappuzha, where the
martyrs of Punnapra-Vayalar were cremated. The flag pole march started
from Kayyur, in Kasargode district and the torch relay started from
Thillankeri in Kannur district. In C Kannan Nagar, Kodiyeri
Balakrishnan, Chairman of reception Committee hoisted the red flag.
CITU which gathered a massive impetus through the February 20, 21 All
India strike will focus on the strengthening of Trade Union unity in the
run up for widening struggles to coerce the central government to
revoke the anti-people neo liberal policies. While elaborating the
structure of the conference, General Secretary Tapan Sen said that the
immediate responsibility of CITU is to spread the message of All India
strike among the workers and people.
Ten crores people including workers, farmers, and agricultural workers
took part in the All India strike called by India working class
movement. It can be analyzed that the working class movement has reached
into new phase of growth. Disregarding the political affiliations other
central trade unions like INTUC, and BMS also actively took part in the
strike. The warnings of working class were disregarded by the Prime
Minister who keeps on pouring concessions to the corporate houses.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram too avoided the suggestions of working
class while presenting budget. Trade union leaders will meet in Delhi
on May 3rd to plan the future course of action.

While presenting the outline of the deliberations to be taken place,
Tapan Sen said that our thrust will be on democratic functioning of
organization, how to tackle the social issues like divisive and communal
agenda, changing scenario in the labor force and how to fight the
policies of the central government. On April 7th delegates will discuss commission papers based on this four pronged agenda.

Contract labor issue will also be discussed. Permanent jobs are
decreasing in India as the strength of temporary workers in the total
work force reaches 70-80 percent.

While replying a query on sustainability of Trade Union unity, Sen said
that the unity is not formed recently and for the last four years all
TU’s are jointly organize the struggles. This achievement was come true
with the hard work of two decades. The unity is not only shown in the
national leadership level but among the factory level. Ordinary workers
also want to be united, he said.

A K Padmanabhan, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Reception Committee General
Convenor K P Sahadevan, CITU state General Secretary Elamaram Kareem
were also present in the press conference.